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The original housewife is returning. Vicki Gunvalson<\/a> confirmed on November 14 at BravoCon<\/a> that she will be rejoining the series at the Bravos Award Show with Andy Cohen. \u201cVicki, would you join us as a Housewife for Season 20?\u201d Cohen asked her during the taping and handed her an orange. Gunvalson teared up as she cheered with a \u201cYes!\u201d<\/p>\n Deadline\u00a0reports<\/a>\u00a0that while Gunvalson accepted the offer, she hasn\u2019t formally begun negotiations with Bravo, and it\u2019s unclear if she\u2019s coming back as a full-time Housewife. Gunvalson became one of the first Housewives on\u00a0The\u00a0Real Housewives of Orange County, becoming the launching pad for the Housewives franchise\u00a0into the Bravoverse; she was on the main cast of the show from season 1-13 until her departure, where she then made brief appearances in seasons 14, 17, and 18.<\/p>\n Thankfully, it seems like other OC housewives are happy for Gunvalson\u2019s return, and it might even lead to a Tres Amigas reunion. \u201cYou know, I\u2019m so excited for Vicki,\u201d current RHOC star Shanon Storm Beador shared<\/a> on a Saturday panel as she realized last night\u2019s proposal was a full-circle moment in many ways. \u201cAnd it was really funny\u2026 Two years ago, when she won\u00a0the Wifetime Achievement award<\/a>, [Vicki] came back to the seat and said something like, \u2018Oh, why didn\u2019t Andy pull an orange out of his pocket?\u2019 And he did that last night\u2026 I\u2019m so excited for her.\u201d Tamra Judge also confirmed that after their friendship breakup, Judge and Gunvalson are amigas once more. \u201cWe\u2019ve had a lot of ups and downs in our 20 years. I always say we\u2019re like sisters,\u201d Judge told Us Weekly<\/a> last week, ahead of the announcement. \u201cIt\u2019s that love-hate relationship all the time. I\u2019m talking sisterly love, like, you have little arguments. And then, of course, being on a show together, there\u2019s always ups and downs \u2014 especially the type of show that we were on together.\u201d<\/p>\n Related<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo: Todd Williamson\/Bravo via Getty The original housewife is returning. Vicki Gunvalson confirmed on November 14 at BravoCon…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294513,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[603,153298,88,3,153946,109551,40185,602,92,31148,153947],"class_list":["post-294512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-bravo","tag-bravocon-2025","tag-entertainment","tag-news","tag-rhoc","tag-shannon-storms-beador","tag-tamra-judge","tag-the-real-housewives-of-orange-county","tag-tv","tag-vicki-gunvalson","tag-whoop-it-up"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}